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Mahmud Tarzi

1865 - 1933

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Mahmud Tarzi (Pashto: محمود طرزۍ, Dari: محمود بیگ طرزی; August 23, 1865 – November 22, 1933) was an Afghan politician and intellectual. He is known as the father of Afghan journalism. He became a key figure in the history of Afghanistan, following the lead of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey by working for modernization and secularization, and strongly opposing religious extremism and obscurantism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahmud Tarzi has received more than 118,568 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Mahmud Tarzi is the 12,241st most popular politician (up from 12,569th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 95th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Afghan Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mahmud Tarzis by language

Over the past year Mahmud Tarzi has had the most page views in the with 12,897 views, followed by Persian (6,829), and German (1,793). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Tajik (102.00%), Bosnian (56.09%), and Urdu (55.51%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mahmud Tarzi ranks 12,241 out of 19,576. Before him are Al-Harith ibn Jabalah, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau, Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Gualberto Villarroel, William B. Travis, and Karl Arnold. After him are Kim Campbell, Shu-turul, Khalid Bakdash, Charles Duclerc, Margit Slachta, and Gilles Andriamahazo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Mahmud Tarzi ranks 110. Before him are Lubor Niederle, Edgar Aabye, Albéric Magnard, Wilson Bentley, Jehanne D'Alcy, and Robert W. Chambers. After him are Albert Aurier, Karl Blossfeldt, Uchida Kōsai, Pierre Weiss, Jacques Mieses, and Kristjan Raud. Among people deceased in 1933, Mahmud Tarzi ranks 84. Before him are Prince Aribert of Anhalt, Sara Teasdale, Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas, Anastasia Golovina, Robert W. Chambers, and Arnold Mendelssohn. After him are Gyula Krúdy, Georges Leygues, Friedrich von Ingenohl, Sophia Parnok, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, and Oskari Friman.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Mahmud Tarzi ranks 93 out of 177. Before him are Abdul Qadir (1944), Abdul Ahad Mohmand (1959), Ali Hujwiri (1009), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (1139), and Farrukhi Sistani (980). After him are Shah Shujah Durrani (1785), Amrullah Saleh (1972), Heliocles I (-200), Kamran Mirza (1512), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), and Ayub Khan (1857).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Mahmud Tarzi ranks 61. Before him are Abdul Ali Mazari (1946), Mohammad Yaqub Khan (1849), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Abdul Qadir (1944), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), and Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (1139). After him are Shah Shujah Durrani (1785), Amrullah Saleh (1972), Heliocles I (-200), Kamran Mirza (1512), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), and Ayub Khan (1857).

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